- By Jim Evans
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SMART TALK by Dr. Verbos Metikulos
COMPLETELY DESTROYED: This linguistic impairment usually responds to treatment at our general care facility, the William Safire Center. We teach patients that destroyed is an absolute term.
Nothing can be partially destroyed. It was damaged, perhaps severely damaged, but destroyed is destroyed.
However, some of our patients at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired are completion compulsives. They not only say completely destroyed but also completely surrounded, completely done, completely filled, and completely finished.
These patients require a program of therapy completely and totally for this compulsion.
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